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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No, but you keep talking past them.

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Past the numbers I told you about.

    I’m done here - you’re having a conversation with yourself at this point. I addressed the topic I addressed (the deaths from starvation Lysenkoism caused).

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s immaterial. Stalin probably didn’t execute any of those 800k people himself, but he’s still responsible because he ordered their deaths. Likewise, it was him who put Lysenko into a position of power where he could cause the holodomor, so he’s at least partly responsible.

      It’s as if you’re arguing Hitler wasn’t responsible for Mengele’s torture experiments because it wasn’t him who was conducting them.

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      • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I feel you don’t know much about what you’re on about.

        Trofim Lysenko

        The downfall of Soviet genetics and agriculture occurred due to the alignment of numerous social, economic, scientific, meteorological, and political factors. No single person can bear complete blame for the events, but a crucial actor in the story was Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was born to a Ukrainian…

        www.storybehindthescience.org/lysenkoism

        I also think you’re arguing just to argue rather than doing something more useful.

        Bye.

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